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David Hershey Fan Club

David Hershey is a botanist living in Maryland who specialized in botany education.

Don't Just Pet Your Chia is the title of an article he published in 1995 (Science Activities 32(2):8-12). The article includes lots of great information about the history of chia seeds and several classroom activities including experiments testing tolerance to salinity and something called a "sponge pyramid."

Under the Fair Use Provision of Copyright Law, and with permission of the author, this article can be downloaded here.